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In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen. — Noah Hawley

Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it. — Rachel Kushner

Revolutionary intellectuals have the historic mission of inventing the vocabulary and the themes for the next tyranny. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale. — Victoria Aveyard

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me. — Tite Kubo

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition. — George Orwell

They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women. — John O'Hara

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes. — Dani Shapiro

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. — William Styron

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures. — Henry David Thoreau

I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes. — Jamie Hewlett

I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them. — Mamoru Hosoda

The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story. — John Logan

I've always been attracted to themes of isolation in my work - in my independent work and my DC work. — Jeff Lemire

Sex, love and death are universal and timeless dramatic themes. — Julia Ormond

I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to. — Guy Laliberte

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life. — Mark Webber

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities. — Don DeLillo

I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes. — Lorna Simpson

Happiness is never a guarantee and it always requires effort. — Charity Bradford

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life. — Ronnie James Dio

And like an echo, God often uses the repetitive events and themes in daily life to get my attention and draw me closer to himself. - The Sacred Echo — Margaret Feinberg

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain. — Claude Monet

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic. — David Copperfield

--In his themes and techniques, Conrad was a liberator:he eloquently questioned what other people took for granted. — Cedric Watts

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues. — James Dyson

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights. — Naguib Mahfouz

I am against great themes and great subjects ... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact. — Jean Renoir

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise. — Garet Garrett

Change and renewal are themes in life, aren't they? We keep growing throughout life. — Susan Minot

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres. — Sanjay Dutt

I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but never say aloud. — Jillian Medoff

These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world. — Cory Booker

All literature and popular art contain themes that resonate with the audience. — Daniel Lambert

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. — Tom Robbins

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas. — Alex Winter

I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about. — Abi Morgan

I don't really set out to explore grand themes. I set out to tell a story. And one I have to be able to imagine right through. — John Irving

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering. — Ruta Sepetys

His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise and hate. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Themes around education and learning run through my work. — David Almond

I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas. — Abi Morgan

Learning" and "Performance" are key fundamental themes of better organizational governance. — Pearl Zhu

There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections. — Dean Kamen

People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way. — Mel Gibson

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures — Tawni O'Dell

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and ... most people's books are just variations on certain themes. — Christopher Isherwood

Whatever direction your life takes, your underlying themes remain. Discover and explore your themes to open the way for rich creative development. — Nita Leland

Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe. — Peter Dicken

I feel that people really feel they've got a part of me when they listen to my albums and the themes just show themselves. — Sarah Brightman

I find a very guilty pleasure in dark themes and vibes, and finding where the transcending nature of awareness meets this darkness. — Mike Scheidt

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface. — Bo Burnham

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal. — Christopher Eccleston

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water. — Anna Letitia Barbauld

I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process. — Jason Mraz

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war. — John Pilger

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant. — Martin Scorsese

I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes. — Chuck Palahniuk

The distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

If you're gonna take people on a journey that deals with some pretty heavy themes, I think you best have a sense of humor, here and there. — Francesca Gregorini

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon. — Ezra Taft Benson

I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge. — Jonathan Nolan

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan. — Ridley Scott

After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things. — Tim Zuck

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene. — Harold E. Varmus

You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy. — Miranda Hart

'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland' inspired me. I wanted to take those themes and try to bring it into a more 21st story with aliens. — Tony DiTerlizzi

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ. — John Clayton

'Nowhere Man' embodies one of my favorite themes - the hero completely out of his element. It's really near and dear to my heart. — Ruth Glick

I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is a wonderful launching-off place. — Lawrence Weschler

I really love writing themes and melody. — Trevor Rabin

Themes recur again and again in my work. — Eve Arnold

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life. — Dani Shapiro

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides. — Chuck Mangione

He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying. — Stephen Chbosky

Let us remember that humanity's story has only two perennially recurring themes: struggle and progress. — Brendon Burchard

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times. — Clarence Day

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery. — Bob McDonnell

Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all. — Dave Wolverton

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing. — Joyce Tenneson

I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes. — Tao Lin

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that. — Catherine McCormack